Person
John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Son of John D. Rockefeller; director of the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company in 1914.
- Also known as
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
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Son of John D. Rockefeller
- founded Standard Oil 1870
- head of Standard Oil 1870–1896
- founded Rockefeller Foundation 1913
- member of South Improvement Company director
Connections 7
son of
- John D. Rockefeller Primary record 1
board member of
- Colorado Fuel & Iron Company 1914 director Primary record 2
- Rockefeller Foundation 1914 Primary record 2
owns a stake in
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Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
Primary record
2
Said of the stock interest of the Rockefellers, father and son.
involved in
- Commission on Industrial Relations hearings on Colorado and the foundations, 1915 witness Primary record 2
- Colorado coal strike of 1913–14 director and part-owner of the struck company; wrote to its chairman Primary record 3
- Colorado coal strike of 1913–14 criticized in the House committee report Primary record 4
Timeline 2 dates
- 1914 John D. Rockefeller Jr. board member of Colorado Fuel & Iron Company
- 1914 John D. Rockefeller Jr. board member of Rockefeller Foundation
Proof 4 sources
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Industrial Relations: Final Report and Testimony, Vol. VIII (Colorado coal miners’ strike; testimony of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., January 1915), U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations (scan via Internet Archive), 1916.
Primary record
I think that my father and myself are the only ones who have an investment in the fuel company
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Statement of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., before the United States Commission on Industrial Relations, January 25, 1915, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (scan via Internet Archive), 25 Jan 1915.
Primary record
it has also been said that I have been too indifferent and that as a director I should have exercised more authority.
to my colleagues in the Rockefeller Foundation the instituting of a series of studies into the fundamental problems arising out of industrial relations
our stock interest in the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company has yielded a return of about two-thirds of one per cent, per annum on an actual cash investment of about $6,000,000.
The Commission has asked my views as to what extent the stockholders and directors of a corporation are responsible for the labor conditions which exist in it
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Industrial Relations: Final Report and Testimony, Vol. IX (Colorado strike, foundations and industrial control; testimony of J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, Sr.), U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations (scan via Internet Archive), 1916.
Primary record
Whatever the outcome may be, we will stand by you to the end.
You are fighting a good fight
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Report on the Colorado Strike Investigation made under House Resolution 387, Sixty-third Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Mines and Mining (scan via Internet Archive), 2 Mar 1915.
Primary record
He was obstinate and the statement that he was fighting for liberty for the workingman will not bear investigation.
Mr. Rockefeller is a long-distance director, not having attended a meeting of the stockholders or directors of the company in 10 years.
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